Summers can be anything but relaxing as a rising sophomore, not knowing what to expect. Students may fall into a summer break overload as a result of pressuring themselves to cram as many summer courses as they can into one summer in the hopes that these courses would make their sophomore year a little more sane. Naturally, the biggest and primary concern is getting rid of PE. However, students are limited to such few options to get rid of the class.
While CHS does offer summer school PE courses to all students, the first pick doesn’t usually go to underclassmen – not to mention the additional inconveniences of summer courses like having to set aside six hours a day for two full weeks. Having PE during the school year is even worse as it does not just fit into the schedule as it had during freshman year due to the addition of a history class. Although bodybuilding, volleyball, and badminton sound fun in theory, this class would either replace an elective, world language, or be squeezed in as a seventh period. Or maybe these students dislike team sports, which deters from what CHS currently offers. Whatever the truth is, the school should offer an acceptance to students’ daily notions of physical movement, like documenting their steps in a day and emailing it to a physical education teacher. This would allow students to be able to achieve physical goals and realistically stay fit without making chaos of their whole year. So what can students do as of right now? CHS students themselves have many opinions on this particular question as of right now. One of them belongs to rising sophomore, Sadiya Subhan.
“Choosing what kinds of sports we can do can be a help in making the subject more fun. I’m planning to take the online course because I just want to get it out of the way and fill that space with another subject,” Subhan said.
Subhan is one of the more fortunate students that are able to take the summer PE course, which frees her from the obligations of a PE class during the school year.
Choosing how to go about sophomore year can be hard and can ask for some risks. Asking for counselors’ and teachers’ guidance may also help as well when making this tough decision. It may occur that students think that they can handle more than they actually can take on, so it is always good to take advice and to pick the schedule that works best for each individual.
